Grand Curriculum Designs

Grand Curriculum Designs is based on four key principles: 

• Young people need both knowledge and competencies to enable them to thrive

• A locally generated curriculum should integrate with and have equal status to the national curriculum

• The best curricula are designed by teachers working in partnership with others

• A rigorous curriculum design process is in itself a valuable school improvement tool

Grand Curriculum Designs was successfully piloted with 20 schools in 2012-13 and over 40 schools signed up for the 2013-14 programme. You can view samples of their project summaries here:

• Grewelthorpe Primary School, North Yorkshire (PDF, 0.4mb)

• St Edmund's RC Primary School, Suffolk (PDF, 0.5mb)

• Hayes Primary School, Kent (PDF, 0.5mb)

For more information about the programme and course structure, please contact gcd@ioe.ac.uk or visit www.theioe.ac.uk/gcd.